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Knots in Washington XLIII; 60th birthday of J. Scott Carter
December 9-11, 2016
George Washington University
Washington, DC, USA

Organizers
Valentina Harizanov (GWU), Jozef H. Przytycki (GWU), Yongwu Rong (GWU), Radmila Sazdanovic (NCSU), Alexander Shumakovitch (GWU), Hao Wu (GWU)

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Globular: Manipulating knots, knotted surfaces, and higher dimensional knots
by
J. Scott Carter
University of South Alabama
Coauthors: Jamie Vicary

About 7 months ago, Jamie Vicary showed me program globular.science . This is a categorical approach to knot theory and higher dimensional knot theory. In addition, diagrammatic calculations can be made in the context of Frobenius or Hopf algebras or their categorical analogues. In this talk, I want to demonstrate a wide variety of example computations that can be made in the context of globular. In particular, I want to show examples of braided n-manifolds embedded and immersed in (n+2)-space. These are two and three fold simple branched covers that are embedded in such a way that the projection induces the branched covering.

Other interesting examples will also be constructed and demonstrated.

Date received: November 23, 2016


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